• International Journal of Stem Cells
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.301-310
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• 2022

Background and Objectives: RUNX2 plays an essential role during the odontoblast differentiation of dental pulp stem cells (DPSCs). RUNX2 Exon 5 is an alternative exon and essential for RUNX2 transcriptional activity. This study aimed to investigate the regulatory mechanisms of RUNX2 exon 5 alternative splicing in human DPSCs. Methods and Results: The regulatory motifs of RUNX2 exon 5 were analyzed using the online SpliceAid program. The alternative splicing of RUNX2 exon 5 in DPSCs during mineralization-induced differentiation was analyzed by RT-PCR. To explore the effect of splicing factor YBX1 on exon 5 alternative splicing, gaining or losing function of YBX1 was performed by transfection of YBX1 overexpression plasmid or anti-YBX1 siRNA in DPSCs. Human RUNX2 exon 5 is evolutionarily conserved and alternatively spliced in DPSCs. There are three potential YBX1 binding motifs in RUNX2 exon 5. The inclusion of RUNX2 exon 5 and YBX1 expression level increased significantly during mineralization-induced differentiation in DPSCs. Overexpression of YBX1 significantly increased the inclusion of RUNX2 exon 5 in DPSCs. In contrast, silence of YBX1 significantly reduced the inclusion of exon 5 and the corresponding RUNX2 protein expression level. Knockdown of YBX1 reduced the expression of alkaline phosphatase (ALP) and osteocalcin (OC) and the mineralization ability of DPSCs, while overexpression of YBX1 increased the expression of ALP and OC and the mineralization ability of DPSCs. Conclusions: Human RUNX2 exon 5 is conserved evolutionarily and alternatively spliced in DPSCs. Splicing factor YBX1 promotes the inclusion of RUNX2 exon 5 and improves the mineralization ability of DPSCs.

• 한국환경성돌연변이발암원학회지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.16-22
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• 2003

Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are alterations in DNA base that occur most frequently throughout the human genome. The SNPs of DNA repair genes, hMLH1, hMSH2 and ATM, among 100 Korean people were analyzed using Dynamic Allele specific Hybridization (DASH) techniques. Mutation at the position of exon 38 (GA) and exon 10 (CG) of ATM gene, mutation at the position of exon 8 (AG), and exon 1 (AG) of hMLH1 gene and exon 14 (AG) of hMSH2 gene were investigated. No mutation at the selected position of ATM gene and hMSH1 gene was found. However, while there was no mutation at the position of exon of hMSH2 gene, mutation was found at the promotion region (CT) with the frequency of 24% CC, 36% CT and 62% TT genotyes. This results might be used as baseline data for research on SNP of Korean population.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.511-516
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• 2012

Background: We investigated the association between polymorphisms in the $p53$ tumor suppressor gene and breast cancer risk in women especially in the Southern part of India. Methods: Genotyping was performed for 50 breast cancer women and 50 controls to determine the status of $p53$ exon 4 codon 72 polymorphism and exon 7 codon 249 mutation and their possible role in breast cancer risk. Results: Frequency of Arg/Arg at codon 72 was 18% in controls and 28% in patients, Arg/Pro frequency was 56% and 66%, Pro/Pro genotype was 8% in controls and 8% in patients. No significance was observed for breast cancer risk with either Arg/Arg or Pro/Pro genotype in codon 72 polymorphism. Similarly, mutation analysis of exon 7 codon 249 revealed that 72% of breast cancer patients have mutation, which is not statistically significant. However, there is a strong association between increase in exon 7 codon 249 mutation and exposure to pollution. Conclusion: The results suggested that there is no risk for exon 4 with Arg/Arg or Pro/Pro polymorphisms in the $p53$ gene and there is no strong correlation between breast cancer patients and mutation in exon 7 codon 249 in South Indian women.

• 대한화학회지
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• 제50권2호
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• pp.116-122
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• 2006

종양억제유전자(tumor-suppressor gene)는 유방암종과 관련하여 높은 돌연변이 비율로 나타나고 있는 것으로 보고되어지고 있다. p53 유전자는 20kb의 크기를 갖는 유전자로써 인간 염색체의 17p13.1에 위치하고 있다. 본 실험에서는 유방암으로 진단 받고 수술한 환자의 조직 100개와 환자와 전혀 상관없는 정상 조직 103개를 대상으로 DNA를 추출하고 PCR-DHPLC(polymerase chain reaction-denaturing high performance liquid chromatography) 방법으로 단일 염기 다형성을 검출하였다. 또한 컬럼의 충진물질과 DNA의 결합에 의한 분리능을 확인하기 위해 충진물이 다른 컬럼의 단일 염기 다형성을 실험하였다. 그 결과 100개의 유방암 조직 중 exon 5에서 11개(11%)의 C/A, C/G genotype을, exon 8에서 42개(42%) T del genotype을 확인하였다. 103개의 정상 조직에서 exon 5에서 2개(2.9%), exon 8에서 9개(8.7%)의 polymorphism을 확인하였다. 컬럼의 분리능 실험에서는 PS-DVB(poly styrene - divinylbenzene)으로 충진된 컬럼이 C18으로 충진된 컬럼보다 더 좋은 분리능을 보였다.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.315-320
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• 2016

Porcine beta-defensin-1 (PBD-1) gene plays an important role in the innate immunity of pigs. The peptide encoded by this gene is an antimicrobial peptide that has direct activity against a wide range of microbes. This peptide is involved in the co-creation of an antimicrobial barrier in the oral cavity of pigs. The objective of the present study was to detect polymorphisms, if any, in exon-1 and exon-2 regions of PBD-1 gene in Large White Yorkshire (LWY) and native Ankamali pigs of Kerala, India. Blood samples were collected from 100 pigs and genomic DNA was isolated using phenol chloroform method. The quantity of DNA was assessed in a spectrophotometer and quality by gel electrophoresis. Exon-1 and exon-2 regions of PBD-1 gene were amplified by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and the products were subjected to single strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP) analysis. Subsequent silver staining of the polyacrylamide gels revealed three unique SSCP banding patterns in each of the two exons. The presence of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) was confirmed by nucleotide sequencing of the PCR products. A novel SNP was found in the 5'-UTR region of exon-1 and a SNP was detected in the mature peptide coding region of exon-2. In exon-1, the pooled population frequencies of GG, GT, and TT genotypes were 0.67, 0.30, and 0.03, respectively. GG genotype was predominant in both the breeds whereas TT genotype was not detected in LWY breed. Similarly, in exon-2, the pooled population frequencies of AA, AG, and GG genotypes were 0.50, 0.27, and 0.23, respectively. AA genotype was predominant in LWY pigs whereas GG genotype was predominant in native pigs. These results suggest that there exists a considerable genetic variation at PBD-1 locus and further association studies may help in development of a PCR based genotyping test to select pigs with better immunity.

• 농업과학연구
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.79-88
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• 1998

본 연구는 축협중앙회 한우개량부에서 사육중인 한우의 혈액으로부터 genomic DNA를 추출하여 한우의 면역체계에 중요한 역할을 담당하고 있는 BoLA DRB3 exon2 유전자를 PCR기법을 이용하여 증폭하고 친자확인을 위한 이들 대립유전자들의 염기서열을 분석하여 한우의 효율적인 육종에 분자유전수준에서의 접목을 위한 기초자료를 얻고자 실시하였던바, 얻어진 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 1 한우의 혈액에서 추출된 genomic DNA를 1.5% agarose gel에서 전기영동한 결과, 12.2kb이상의 단일밴드로 나타나, genomic DNA는 아주 잘 분리된 것으로 판단되었으며, 한편 genomic DNA로부터 PCR기법을 이용하여 BoLA DRB3 exon2 유전자를 증폭한 결과 284kb의 단편이 증폭 되었음을 확인하였다. 2. PCR 증폭산물을 pCR 2.1 vector를 사용하여 cloning 하고, 균주에 형질전환을 시켜 재조합 plasmid를 추출한 후, EcoR 1으로 처리한 결과 300bp 단편이 확인되어 증폭되어진 BoLA DRB3 exon2 유전자가 vector 내에 잘 삽입되었음을 확인하였다. 3. 부와 모의 BoLA DRB3 exon2 대립유전자의 염기서열을 분석한 결과 염기서열의 상동성은 부의 대립유전자간에는 82.0% 이었고, 모의 대립유전자간에는 90.1%이었다. 4. 친자를 확인하기 위해 부와 모 그리고 자손간의 가계에 대한 BoLA DRB3 exon2 대립유전자의 염기서열을 분석한 결과 Mendel 의 법칙에 따라 유전된다는 사실을 확인 할 수 있었다. 5. 이상의 결과를 종합하여보면 한우의 BoLA DRB3 exon2 유전자의 부와 모, 그리고 자손의 대립유전자에 대한 염기서열 수준에서의 친자확인이 가능하였으며, 이들 연구결과는 축우의 유전적 능력개량에 중요한 분자유전학적 기초 자료가 될 것으로 판단되었다.

• Journal of Pharmaceutical Investigation
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• 제39권6호
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• pp.411-416
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• 2009

The aim of this study was to investigate the frequency of the SNPs on PEPT1 exon 5 and 16 and to analyze haplotype frequency on PEPT1 exon 5 and 16 in Korean population. A total of 519 healthy subjects was genotyped for PEPT1, using pyrosequencing analysis and polymerase chain reaction-based diagnostic tests. Haplotype was statistically inferred using an algorithm based on the expectation-maximization (EM). PEPT1 exon 5 G381A genotyping revealed that the frequency for homozygous wild-type (G/G), heterozygous (G/A) and homozygous mutant-type (A/A) was 30.4, 53.4 and 16.2%, respectively. PEPT1 exon 16 G1287C genotyping revealed that the frequency for homozygous G/G, heterozygous G/C and homozygous C/C type was 88.8, 10.0 and 1.2%, respectively. Based on these genotype data, haplotype analysis between PEPT1 exon 5 G381A and exon 16 G1287C using HapAnalyzer and PL-EM has proceeded. The result has revealed that linkage disequilibrium between alleles is not obvious (|D'|=0.3667).

• Genomics & Informatics
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.80-85
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• 2005

HExDB is a database for analyzing exon and splicing pattern information in Homo sapiens. HExDB is useful for specific purposes: 1) to design primers for exon amplification from cDNA and 2) to understand the change of ORFs by alternative splicing. HExDB was constructed by integrating data from AltExtron which is the computationally predicted exon database, Ensemble cDNA annotation, and Affymetrix genome tile published recently. Although it may contain false positive data, HExDB is good starting point due to its sensitivity. At present, there areas many as 2,046,519 exons stored in the HExDB. We found that $16.8\%$ of the exons in the database was constitutive exons and $83.1\%$ were novel gene exons.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제27권9호
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• pp.1228-1235
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• 2014

The swine leukocyte antigen (SLA)-DRA locus is noteworthy among other SLA class II loci for its limited variation and has not been investigated in depth. This study was investigated to detect polymorphisms of four exons of SLA-DRA gene and its association with piglet diarrhea in Landrace, Large White and Duroc pigs. No polymorphisms were detected in exon 3, while 2 SNPs (c.178G>A and c.211T>C), 2 SNPs (c.3093A>C and c.3104C>T) and 5 SNPs (c.4167A>G, c.4184A>G, c.4194A>G, c.4246A>G and c.4293G>A) were detected in exon 1, exon 2 and exon 4 respectively, and 1 SNP (c.4081T>C) in intron 3. Statistical results showed that genotype had significant effect on piglet diarrhea, individuals with genotype BC had a higher diarrhea score when compared with the genotypes AA, AB, AC and CC. Futhermore, genotype AC had a higher diarrhea score than the genotype CC in exon 1 (p<0.05); diarrhea scores of genotype AA and BB were higher than those of genotypes AC and CC in exon 2 (p<0.05); individuals with genotype AA had a higher diarrhea score than individuals with genotype AB and BB in exon 4 (p<0.05). Fourteen common haplotypes were founded by haplotype constructing of all SNPs in the three exons, its association with piglet diarrhea appeared that Hap2, 5, 8, 10, and 14 may be the susceptible haplotypes and Hap9 may be the resistant haplotype to piglet diarrhea. The genetic variations identified of the SLA-DRA gene may potentially be functional mutations related to piglet diarrhea.

• BMB Reports
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• 제50권8호
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• pp.423-428
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• 2017

SRSF2, a Serine-Arginine rich (SR) protein, is a splicing activator that mediates exon inclusion and exclusion events equally well. Here we show SRSF2 directly suppresses intron splicing to suppress cassette exon inclusion in SMN pre-mRNA. Through a serial mutagenesis, we demonstrate that a 10 nt RNA sequence surrounding the branch-point (BP), is important for SRSF2-mediated inhibition of cassette exon inclusion through directly interacting with SRSF2. We conclude that SRSF2 inhibits intron splicing to promote exon exclusion.